By Comrade Gbenga Olowoyo milr fcia fimpa JP
“WHAT IS NEEDED NOW, MORE THAN EVER, IS LEADERSHIP THAT STEERS US AWAY FROM FEAR AND FOSTERS GREATER CONFIDENCE IN THE INHERENT GOODNESS AND INGENUITY OF HUMANITY” – Jimmy Carter
The death of Jimmy Carter the 39th President of United States of America has opened another international discourse and celebration of a leader with golden heart who is being celebrated in death across the globe.
The celebration of late Jimmy Carter is not a crocodile celebration but a sincere one because of his good deeds before, during and after his sojourn in life as an ordinary citizen, Governor, the President of USA and after he left office as President.
He impacted life till death through his Carter Centre, which catered for millions of people across the globe with his late wife Rosalynn Carter who he married on July 7th 1946 and had died earlier at the age of 96 years (August 18, 1927 – November 19, 2023)
Late Jimmy Carter’s wife; Eleanor Rosalynn Carter (nee Smith) was an American writer, activists and humanitarian who served as the first lady of the United States of America from 1977 to 1981 as the wife of the Late President.
As a matter of reminder, death is a necessary end for any mortal, hence, “the life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero .
Jimmy Carter who was
39th President of the United States and Founder of The Carter Center his real name was(James Earl Carter, Junior.), he was born Oct. 1st 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Senior., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy Carter, a registered nurse.
Jimmy Carter was educated in the public school of Plains, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a submariner, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and rising to the rank of lieutenant.
He was Chosen by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine programme, he was assigned to Schenectady, New York, where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine.
On July 7, 1946, he married Rosalynn Smith of Plains. When his father died in 1953, he resigned his naval commission and returned with his family to Georgia. He took over the Carter farms, and he and Rosalynn operated Carter’s Warehouse, a general-purpose seed and farm supply company in Plains. He quickly became a leader of the community, serving on county boards supervising education, the hospital authority, and the library. In 1962 he won election to the Georgia Senate.
Jimmy Carter lost his first gubernatorial campaign in 1966, but won the next election, becoming Georgia’s 76th Governor on January 12, 1971. He was the Democratic National Committee campaign chairman for the 1974 congressional and gubernatorial elections.
Also, On Dec. 12, 1974, President Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy for President of the United States. He won his party’s nomination on the first ballot at the 1976 Democratic National Convention and was elected president on Nov. 2, 1976.
Jimmy Carter served as president from Jan. 20, 1977 to Jan. 20, 1981.
Significant foreign policy accomplishments of his administration included the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union, and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. He championed human rights throughout the world.
On the domestic side, the administration’s achievements included a comprehensive energy programme conducted by a new Department of Energy; deregulation in energy, transportation, communications, and finance; major educational programs under a new Department of Education; and major environmental protection legislation, including the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which doubled the size of the national park system and tripled the wilderness areas.
Jimmy Carter performed excellently well like George Washington who was the first United States of America elected President on April 30th 1789
Jimmy Carter is the author of thirty-two books, many of which are presently in revised editions: The books included but not limited to the underlisted; Why Not the Best? (1975, 1996), A Government as Good as Its People (1977, 1996), Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (1982, 1995), Negotiation: The Alternative to Hostility (1984, 2003), The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East (1985, 1993, 2007), Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life, written with Rosalynn Carter (1987, 1995), An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections (1988, 1994), Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age (1992), Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation (1993, 1995), Always a Reckoning and Other Poems, (1995),
Others include, The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer, illustrated by Amy Carter (1995), Living Faith (1996), Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith (1997), The Virtues of Aging (1998), An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (2001), Christmas in Plains: Memories (2001), The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (2002), The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War (2003), Sharing Good Times (2004), Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis (2005), Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (2006, 2007).
Other publications include ; Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope (2007), A Remarkable Mother (2008), We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work (2009), White House Diary (2010),
Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President (2011), as general editor, NIV Lessons from the Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter, revised as NSRV Simple Faith Bible (2012, 2020), A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power (2014), The Paintings of Jimmy Carter (2014), A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety (2015), The Craftsmanship of Jimmy Carter (2018), and Faith: A Journey for All (2018)..
The legacy of Jimmy Carter is second to none through the Carter Centre established in 1982, he became University Distinguished Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and with Rosalynn Carter founded The Carter Center.
The nonpartisan and nonprofit Center addresses national and international issues of public policy. Carter Center staff and associates have joined with President Carter in efforts to resolve conflict, promote democracy, protect human rights, and prevent disease and other afflictions.
The Center spearheaded the international effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease, which is poised to be the second human disease in history to be eradicated.
President Carter and The Carter Center engaged in conflict mediation in Ethiopia and Eritrea (1989), North Korea (1994), Liberia (1994), Haiti (1994), Bosnia (1994), Sudan (1995), the Great Lakes region of Africa (1995-96), Sudan and Uganda (1999), Venezuela (2002-2003), Nepal (2004-2008), Ecuador and Colombia (2008), the Middle East (2003-present), and Mali (2018-present).
Under the leadership of Jimmy Carter the Carter Center sent 114 election-observation missions to the Americas, Africa, and Asia. These include Panama (1989), Nicaragua (1990), China (1997), Nigeria (1998), Indonesia (1999), East Timor (1999), Mexico (2000), Guatemala (2003), Venezuela (2004), Ethiopia (2005), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2006), Nepal (2008), Lebanon (2009), Sudan (2010), Tunisia (2011), Egypt (2011-2012), Kenya (2013), Mozambique (2014), Myanmar (2016), Liberia (2017), and Guyana (2020).
The permanent facilities of The Carter Presidential Center were dedicated in October 1986, and include the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, administered by the National Archives.
Also open to visitors is the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park in Plains, administered by the National Park Service.
Until 2020, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter volunteered one week a year for Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps needy people in the United States and in other countries renovate and build homes for themselves. He also taught Sunday school in the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains. The Carters have three sons, one daughter, nine grandsons (one deceased), three granddaughters, five great-grandsons, and nine great-granddaughters.
On December 10, 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to Jimmy Carter “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
On February 18, 2023, President Carter decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care. according to Steven H. Hochman in March 7th 2023
The legendary of thoughts of late President Jimmy Carter include but not limited to the following:
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
“Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.”
“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.”
Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it’s painful when we do. But it’s better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, ‘I don’t want to try because I may not succeed completely.'”
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries”
“WHAT IS NEEDED NOW, MORE THAN EVER, IS LEADERSHIP THAT STEERS US AWAY FROM FEAR AND FOSTERS GREATER CONFIDENCE IN THE INHERENT GOODNESS AND INGENUITY OF HUMANITY. – Jimmy Carter
Late President Jimmy Carter of United States of America continue to live on , your legendary is unsurpassable and will continue stand the test of time .
Comrade Gbenga Olowoyo milr fcia fimpa JP is a Trade Unionist and industrial relations practitioner
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